February 8th, 2013 Issue 14 Mark Your Calendars! - 3/7/13 Monthly Meeting at El Potrillo in Flowood at 6:00p.m. -3/9/13 Crescent City Corvette Club`s Legends Open Car Show - 8:00a.m. Boomtown Casino New Orleans MS Corvette Club: PO Box 2703 Jackson, MS 39207 Be sure to Like the Mississippi Corvette Club on Facebook. From the President Hello again and I hope that everyone is ready for some cruises. The weather is starting to get better as we approach our first event and cruise for lunch. January brought us another new member as we continue to grow. It has become very evident that great Corvette people attract other great Corvette people. February really begins our event schedule with the Dixie National Rodeo Parade and cruise to Rusty s in Vicksburg for lunch. It appears the weather will be perfect with no rain expected until at least Saturday night. Be sure and bring plenty of beads and candy to throw. Just as a reminder from the meeting for C6 owners there is a new item in the Corvette Store called a Window Valet that will allow you to raise and lower windows or just let them down a small amount using your FOB. It requires no wiring and just plugs into an existing plug under the dash normally using for plugging in diagnostic equipment. It does not affect anything in the car s computer other than the new feature and returns to normal when unplugged. It also has a subtle alarm feature that honks the horn three times if anyone tries to open the door and no FOB is present for it to read. As Bill Franks briefed at the January meeting the planning for the 2013 Mississippi Corvette Classic is off and running with Scotty Slay s 1953 Corvette as our poster car. Hopefully all will work out for us to have a new C7 at our show. We will also have a NCRS judge at our show just to show folks how they judge restored cars for certification. This year has all the making to be bigger and better than the previous years. The time is now to start soliciting items for the silent auction during the Mississippi Corvette Classic on 17 August. We need to try and get some big tickets items so we can raise the big bucks for Make A Wish. Even though our tag sales have picked up and we are right on the half way point, we need to turn up the volume and get them sold so we can have our Corvette tags by next fall. Getting out there and marketing/selling the Corvette tag needs be our highest priority with the Mississippi Corvette Classic behind. With a little talking it up, I am confident we can reach our goal of 300. Encourage folks to buy them for their cars other than Corvettes for at least one year. The National Corvette Museum is working with Tom Gerity on a publicity campaign for us. Be sure and keep sending your ideas to April as we are constantly striving to get things on the schedule that our members what to do. She is working to get our web site up to date with the meetings and events for 2012 and doing a great job of looking and researching out potential events for our club. Save the Wave & keep on driving & smiling.
MS Corvette Club Page 2 Honor the Sting Ray The Amelia Island Concours d Elegance will honor and celebrate the 50th anniversary of America s Sports Car, the iconic Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray, at the March 8-10, 2013 event that opens the 2013 international concours season. By 1963, the Corvette had existed for a decade, but the addition of Chevy s brilliant small-block V-8 engine and the close attention of famed General Motors engineer and father of the Corvette, Zora Arkus-Duntov, created a genuine world class sports car that was sold from the showrooms of the world s largest automaker. On its introduction, the Sting Ray instantly made everything else look old, staid or tired. Its shape was the happy offspring of gifted design and the no-limits styling direction of GM Vice President Bill Mitchell. The Mitchell Sting Ray, which won the 1960 Sports Car Club of America s C Modified national championship, was driven by the Flying Dentist, Dr. Dick Thompson. Upon retiring as an active race car, the original Sting Ray was given a coat of bright red paint and driven regularly on the streets of Bloomfield Hills by Mitchell. The car was also driven by a young Elvis Presley in the movie, Clambake. It was this car that influenced the striking and innovative design of the 1963 production car. Underneath all that leading edge styling was a genuine independent rear suspension, with design roots in the radical new wave of rear engine grand prix cars of the late 50s. Good weight distribution, lots of horsepower and a friendly price tag made the new Sting Ray an overnight hit. The Sting Ray bumped Corvette sales by 50 percent in 1963! It didn t hurt that Chevy gave their new sports car the perfect name: STING RAY. When the Corvette was restyled again in 1967, the Sting Ray name was dropped; the legions who loved the Sting Ray nameplate protested. That marketing miscue lasted just one model year. STINGRAY, now one word, returned to Chevy showrooms in 1969. The name has since become synonymous with Corvette. The Sting Ray changed everything, said Amelia Concours founder and chairman Bill Warner. More power and a longer options list made the Sting Ray better, not bloated. Men liked it, women liked it and you could get a Sting Ray serviced at any Chevy dealer. That s the real brilliance of the Sting Ray s world class performance. It didn t hurt that the new sports car actually looked crisp, fresh, and beautiful. To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of this iconic sports car, noted designers Peter Brock and General Motors Vice President of Global Design, Ed Welburn will head a 90-minute seminar on the development of the ground breaking design on Friday, March 8, in the ballroom of The Ritz-Carlton, Amelia Island. The 2013 Amelia Island Concours d'elegance will be held March 8-10, on the 10th and 18th fairways of The Golf Club of Amelia Island at Summer Beach adjacent to The Ritz-Carlton, Amelia Island. The show s Foundation has donated over $2 million to Community Hospice of Northeast Florida, Inc. and other charities on Florida s First Coast since its inception in 1986.
Page 3 MS Corvette Club Page 3 Happy Birthday! 2/3 Rita Haselhorst 2/10 James Johnson 2/17 Joel Smith 2/17 Jim Armstrong 2/22 Anne Bowlus 2/22 Jim Hall 2/22 Ann Rowe 2/22 Bryant Smith 2/25 John Elliott 2/28 Mickey Scrivner Welcome to the Club! ~Blake Vining What does a blonde say when you ask her if her blinker is working? Yes. No. Yes. No. Yes. No. Yes. No. Yes. No. The first person who sends an email to April at april@mcgheecruise.com and tells her where the hidden Corvette emblem (emblem below) is in this newsletter will win a FREE RAFFLE TICKET at the next MS Corvette Club meeting! Please email her only if you plan on attending the monthly meeting. The winner will be announced at El Potrillo and given their raffle ticket. There is only one winner per month so good luck! Our Ladies Luncheon will be at Julep Restaurant in Highland Village at 11:00a.m. Saturday the 23rd. Please RSVP to Susan Smith at susantutor@comcast.net
MS Corvette Club Page 4 MCC 2013 Officers Freddie L. Jones - President Tom Gerity Vice President Rita Haselhorst - Secretary Linda Henslee - Treasurer Beverly Franks - Membership Chairman April Owens Activities Chairman/ Newsletter Editor Nathan Wilson - Website Developer Ladies: I am forming a local chapter of The Well-Armed Woman (TWAW) in this area. The Well-Armed Woman is an organization headquartered in Arizona. The mission of TWAW is to educate, equip, and empower women shooters. Please note that we are NOT a political organization and will refrain from political discussion and activities at meetings. Also, you will NOT be asked to furnish information regarding gun ownership. That is your business and yours alone. What we will do is get together monthly to shoot together as a group and on occasion have guest speakers and certified shooting instructors conduct various shooting classes. You do not have to be a member to attend meetings; however, the annual dues are only $25.00. As a member you will receive a TWAW baseball cap and discounts at local participating businesses. I have several ladies in the club ready to sign up. I hope to have our first event ready to go in February. If you are interested in learning more, please email me. Thanks, Patty Saliba pat1248@bellsouth.net For Sale: 2003 50th Anniversary Corvette. Please email fost2@msn.com or call 601-398-5454 for more information.
Page 5 MS Corvette Club Pre-order your Mississippi Corvette Car Tag! Page 5 There must be 300 tags pre-sold before the tags will be printed. Order yours today and be one of the first to sport this great looking tag!! Click on the following link to download the application: http://mscorvetteclub.com/pdf/201151852326.pdf JASON HAIR Sales Consultant Cell: 601-613-7667 Office: 601-899-6060 Email: jhair@graydaniels.com